This year, I attended my very first Worldcon, home of the Hugo Awards, many famous authors, and lots of cool people in general! It was very different from Comic-Con but still totally awesome ( Read more... )

I've been a Hey Ocean! fan since November 2008. The bassist is my friend's brother, and she convinced me to come see them, and I had a great time, despite getting vodka in my hair (you should read that post). Do I get to claim some sort of superiority for loving them before the bronies discovered them? Because I do.

I could copy and paste ( Read more... )

Inspired by a Buffistas discussion about Isaac Asimov and his "serviceable" prose, I picked up I, Robot, read by Scott Brick. I had never read any Asimov, so I didn't know what to expect. I mean, I saw the movie, but I also knew the movie had nothing to do with anything. And I played a video murder mystery based on the book when I was a kid. But I ( Read more... )

Do we not like talking about TV anymore? I thought a whole week of television show posts would be well received, but no one seems to want to talk about Mr. Show with Bob and David (ZERO people are interested in hilarious sketch comedy? Even when you can watch sketches on YouTube and talk about them with me?), Breaking Bad (this show is amazing, we ( Read more... )

Given that I have yet to do a more extensive post about my adventures in Budapest and Barcelona, this may realistically be all you get regarding my adventures in England and Scotland (I haven't even finished writing down my notes from the trip). But my Facebook status updates do summarize my trip quite well!

spectralbovine has tickets for the following: The ( Read more... )

So you remember how I said I raised another $1,000 in 6 days? Well, thanks to glasseseater, jeeperstseepers (a THIRD time!), harriettheelf, eponis, bookie85, cerulgalactus, lynevere, roxybisquaint, hackerguitar, debetesse, stephl, enshanam, porpentine, brendalu, sailaweigh, hollypaul96, jenelope, tiggz, rolley2001 (twice!), avipedia (a FOURTH and FIFTH time!), spadada, toughcookie42, vandalisimo, apriljoiex, nitedula (a random reader of cleolinda!), and others, I raised my fourth $1,000 in TWO days and my fifth $1,000 in THREE days, and I'm well on my way to my sixth. My competition for Top ( Read more... )

Sunday morning, the four of us must pack madly!

( San Diego Marriott Gaslamp: The Departure )

You totally know what I did at Comic-Con. But you want details, pictures! Well, five of you do.

( Getting to Comic-Con )

Today we had a departmental off-site, and we all had to answer the question "Who inspires you, and why?" Now, I am a very uninspired person, so it was difficult for me to come up with someone. All I knew was that I was not going to name a family member, which is what 61% of the 88 people did (yes, I counted ( Read more... )

Los Angeles had already scared the shit out of me, so I hoped that the day would be kinder.

( Thursday: In which I hit the comic book store, travel through time, walk past a jogging celebrity, and build some rockets )